Re: Set focus on NSTextField in an NSMenuItem
Re: Set focus on NSTextField in an NSMenuItem
- Subject: Re: Set focus on NSTextField in an NSMenuItem
- From: Sandor Szatmari via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 17:01:45 -0400
Try observing mouse events and calling
[NSApplication activateIgnoringOtherApps:YES]
In the mouse down event… that works for me… see Dragan’s plist settings for the
correct way to remove from Dock et all…
Sandor
> On Oct 21, 2022, at 15:44, Richard Charles <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>
>> On Oct 21, 2022, at 6:57 AM, Sandor Szatmari via Cocoa-dev
>> <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Understood. I DON’t get the behavior your seeing where the menu closes.
>> Perhaps because I’m calling it from a different point in code. I am calling
>> [NSApplication activateIgnoringOtherApps:YES] in my listener/observer to the
>> mouseDown action.
>
>
> I made a test MenuBarApp. To get the main menu of the app to not show I had
> to hide the running app. But when the app is hidden, the text field in the
> menu of a status bar item will not accept responder events.
>
> Perhaps you should try using a text field in a popover like spotlight search.
>
> Richard
>
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